 | 1891 - 586 pages
...had been foretold to his father that he should renounce the world, and these four signs were given : An Old Man, a Sick Man, a Dead Man, and a Monk. The King thought : " From this time forth let no such things come near my son. There is no good of my son's... | |
 | Eugene Watson Burlingame - Buddhist legends - 1923 - 236 pages
...riches and high position could give him. When he was twenty-nine years old, a change came over him. FOE many centuries, it has been a common belief in India...number, terrified him, and he resolved to become a monk. Leaving home and wife and son, he devoted himself for six years to fasting, bodily torture, and meditation.... | |
 | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy - Art - 1923 - 392 pages
...auspicious and delightful sights should meet his eyes in the city streets. But in fact, he met successively an old man, a sick man, a dead man — and a monk. These are called the Four Signs. 'Shame then on life!' he said, 'since the decay of every living thing... | |
 | Demi - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1996 - 52 pages
...But another prediction disturbed the king. One of the wise men told him, "There will be four signs: an old man, a sick man, a dead man, and a monk. When the prince has seen these signs, he will leave the kingdom and pursue the life of a holy man."... | |
 | Max L. Christensen - Religion - 1997 - 142 pages
...Gautama in India in about the year 563 BC, a prophecy was made that he would one day see four things: an old man, a sick man, a dead man, and a monk. At the sight of these things, the prophecy said, the prince would realize the impermanence of all earthy... | |
 | Max L. Christensen - Religion - 1997 - 142 pages
...Gautama in India in about the year 563 BC, a prophecy was made that he would one day see four things: an old man, a sick man, a dead man, and a monk. At the sight of these things, the prophecy said, the prince would realize the impermanence of all earthy... | |
 | Juvenile Nonfiction - 2005 - 88 pages
...retire from the world?" he asked the priests. "The four signs," they answered him. "What are these?" "An old man, a sick man, a dead man and a monk," was their reply. The king was alarmed; he did not want to lose his son. So he decided to keep all old... | |
 | Lisa Zamosky - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2007 - 34 pages
...king asked the astrologer what would cause Gautama to leave. The astrologer said that if Gautama saw an old man, a sick man, a dead man, and a monk, he would become religious. The king decided that he would do whatever he could to keep his son from... | |
 | Kate O'Halloran - Creative activities and seat work - 2004 - 210 pages
...in a carriage, accompanied by a servant. I saw the four sights my father had tried to keep from me: an old man, a sick man, a dead man, and a monk. I realized that I also would grow old, become ill, and die. I saw that worldly happiness could not... | |
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Gotama was twentynine years old, he saw for the first time an Old Man, a Sick Man, a Dead Man, and a Monk. 